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Do you believe the Science or the Silliness?

I agree with medchem.

Algernon is alongside others - but ahead of most

in the quest to find a "treatment" for COVID-19.

A "vaccine" will take another 12 to 18 months to confirm

efficacy (that it works) and safety (does no further harm).

The US government is dangerously confusing a lot of Americans.

Here's why:

In a clash of gut instinct versus science, President Donald Trump and the government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, are politely but publicly sparing over whether a malaria drug would work to treat people with coronavirus disease.

Trump is clinging to his feeling that a malaria drug widely available could be the answer-in-waiting to an outbreak spreading around the nation

Calmly and quietly, Fauci insists that the science is not yet there to validate Trump’s hope.

Anxious for answers, Americans heard conflicting views.

A day earlier, when Fauci wasn’t with him at that briefing, Trump had called attention to the drug.

On Friday, Fauci took the reporter’s question and got right to the point.

“No,” he said. “The answer ... is no.

“The information that you’re referring to specifically is anecdotal,” Fauci added firmly. “It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can’t make any definitive statement about it.”

But Trump stuck to what his gut was telling him. As the two men took turns at the podium, Trump said he disagreed with the notion that there is no magic drug for the coronavirus disease

That same mixed-message dynamic was on display during Saturday’s White House briefing

Trump doubled down on his support for the malaria drug, saying it would be distributed for use while Fauci remained respectfully skeptical.

Fauci called the hydroxychloroquine evidence “anecdotal” and made it clear that wasn’t how the science works.

“If you really want to definitively know if something works, you’ve got to do the kind of trial where you get the good information,” he said.

“The president is talking about hope for people and it’s not an unreasonable thing,” Fauci said. “I’ve got to do my job as a scientist and others have other things to do.”

References to above:
https://apnews.com/432a37435f28015e8b45eeff710cd254


In my opinion (AMG),
What the above means in a nutshell is
Politicians are providing the general public - HOPE
Scientists are providing the general public - FACTS

A "HUGE" REASON WHY HYDROXY.../CHLOROQUINE IS BEING PUSHED HARD:

Hydroxychloroquine and a similar drug — chloroquine — are sold around the world under a variety of brand and generic names. They can be prescribed off-label by doctors in the United States.

Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine are no longer under patent.
Meaning, if prescribed off-label, there is no one pharmaceutical company
that stands to corner the market.
To my knowledge, no pharmaceutical company
has repurposed & patented
Hydroxychloroquine and/or Chloroquine
for the sole purpose of treating COVID-19.

I continue to believe
before it's all said and done
there will be multiple drugs
used to treat COVID-19
and likely
drugs used in combination.

^ Just 1 opinion.

Algernon NP-120 (Ifenprodil)

CLEARLY IN THE MIX



/////AMG



Postscript:

Hospitals and doctors are wiping out supplies of an unproven coronavirus treatment

Lack of definitive evidence has not stopped exploding demand for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, two old anti-malarial drugs.

The U.S. has all but exhausted its supplies of two anti-malarial drugs that are being used by some doctors in the U.S. and China to treat the coronavirus, but which lack definitive evidence as effective treatment or approval from the Food and Drug Administration.

The sudden shortages of the two drugs could come at a serious cost for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis patients who depend on them to alleviate symptoms of inflammation, including preventing organ damage in lupus patients.

Even with the deep uncertainties, some doctors have been prescribing the drug as a preventive measure as well as a treatment. The phenomenon, known as “off-label'' prescribing, has depleted already limited supplies.

“It’s gone. It’s not in the pharmacy now,'' said Alexander Morden, a physician in Queens who is taking the drug in the hope of staving off infection. He said he has prescribed hydroxychloroquine to about 30 of his patients as a prophylactic and as a treatment to another dozen who have already been infected.

The drugs should be used exclusively in ill patients and not tried prophylactically by doctors and others, she said.

“The issue for me that’s disturbing is that people are getting their own prescriptions, or have prescribing rights, doctors or dentists, and writing themselves large prescriptions of the drugs, and doing it for themselves and family,'' she said. “If there’s hoarding, that is just going to be a big problem, and that is something that pharmacies and the health care system need to put a stop to pretty quickly."

References:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/20/hospitals-doctors-are-wiping-out-supplies-an-unproven-coronavirus-treatment/

Can you pronounce the word - Pandemic?

P A N - dem - I C